“I have a five-year plan to replace the current tax code with a more simple, flatter and fairer system that reduces the overall tax burden, eliminates corporate welfare and unleashes the economy to grow at twice the rate it is now,” – Frank Howard

If taken as its own entity, the District of Columbia itself, Fairfax County in Virginia and Maryland’s Montgomery County incurred a gross adjusted income loss of roughly $1.97 billion, said Frank Howard, a Republican candidate for Congress in Maryland.